Surely one of the best works of the year: Artist #JeremyDeller @jeremydeller just finished Australian Center for Contemporary Art in Melbourne @acca_melbourne - a 24-hour ritual public burning - and purging from the collective metaphysical body - of Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch.
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From midday to midnight in the (once Anglican, now deconsecrated) St Saviour’s Church of Exiles in Melbourne’s Collingwood, Australia’s most bemoaned media baron and his eldest son were set alight. Staged by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), UK-based artist Jeremy Deller’s Father and Son returned Melbourne-born Rupert Murdoch to his birthplace along with his son, Lachlan. Instead of flesh and bone, the media mogul and his heir-apparent appeared as life-size unscented grey candles. The identities of the wax figures were more obvious to some than others—granted they did look a bit like the artist-duo Gilbert and George—with no material released by ACCA or Deller identifying the melting bodies.
Hilary Thurlow is a Master’s candidate in Art History and Theory at Monash University. Her research centres on the work of Cuban artist, Tania Bruguera.
